The week of February 28:

Monday- After Read Out Loud and Caught 'Ya, we will study the spelling words. Then we will take a quiz on Chapters 5-15 in Crispin. The next assignment will be Chapters 16-21 (pages 69-100) and the quiz will be Thursday. We will then go over a verb review exercise (that they were given Friday) in class to prepare them for the verb test Tuesday.

Tuesday- We will do the Verb Test, silent reading time, study vocabulary, and we'll have discussion questions over pages 69-100 -due Thursday (with the reading).

Wednesday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught 'Ya, and we'll have our spelling quiz over 10 words from Crispin. Students will get new vocabulary words and they'll have some work time to read or work on discussion questions.

Thursday- We'll take the Crispin quiz (69-100), discuss the discussion questions in groups, study the new vocabulary, and silent read.

Friday- We will do Read Out Loud, a Caught 'Ya, study spelling, and we'll introduce a letter writing assignment using the characters and events that are in Crispin. The rough draft of this letter is due Tuesday.

Homework:

Monday- study spelling, reading Crispin

Tuesday- study spelling, discussion questions are due Thursday

Wednesday- reading- Pgs. 69-100 are due Thursday, discussion questions

Thursday- study new vocab. and read Crispin

Friday- Rough draft of letter and Pgs. 101-152 are due Monday

Monday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught 'Ya, and we will hand out the book Crispin. We will begin reading the book and will start an activity where students will be mapping Crispin's adventures and events that occur during the book. There will be a quiz over chapters 1-4 in the book on Wednesday.

Tuesday- We'll have silent reading. Students will get vocabulary words that deal with Crispin. They will be on flashcards. We will also work on verbs, doing a practice exercise in class.

Wednesday- We will start with Read Out Loud and Caught 'Ya. We will also make a quick trip to the library to renew and check out books. We plan to take a Crispin Quiz on Chapters 1-4 (pages 1-23) using the CPS system. The next section of the book Crispin will be Chapters 5-15 (pages 23-69) and the quiz will be on Friday. We have another verb exercise to do as well.

Thursday- The hour will begin with SSR time. Then we will study the spelling words for the quiz next Tuesday. We will also do a verb exercise on keeping verb tenses consistent.

Friday- After Read Out Loud and Caught 'Ya, we will study the spelling words. Then we will take a quiz on Chapters 5-15 in Crispin. The next assignment will be Chapters 16-21 (pages 69-100) and the quiz will be next Tuesday. We will then complete a verb review exercise in class for the verb quiz on Monday.

HOMEWORK: Monday--None

Tuesday--None

Wednesday--Quiz over Chapters 1-4 in Crispin

Thursday--None

Friday--Quiz over Chapters 5-15 in Crispin

Week of February 15-18

Monday- No School- Happy Valentine's Day!

Tuesday- We will do an exercise on verbs. Students will finish their plan sheet for their PowerPoint, and they will begin to make their presentation on medieval terms. There will be an exit ticket on defining a verb and listing 8 state of being verbs.

Wednesday- We will do Read Out Loud and Caught 'Ya. Students will get to finish their PowerPoint presentations.

Thursday- We will do another activity with verbs. Students will present their medieval term and students will take notes on others' presentations.

Friday- We will do Read Out Loud and Caught 'Ya. Students will finish presenting their medieval term presentation, and students will continue to take notes.

Monday- We finished up loose ends with poetry, and began a PowerPoint on verbs.

Tuesday- We had silent reading, finished the verb PowerPoint, and practiced identifying verbs.

Wednesday- We did Read Out Loud and Caught Ya. We also introduced their medieval term project where students work with a partner researching an aspect of medieval life. They will eventually be creating a PowerPoint presentation which they will present to the class next week. This work is in preparation for the reading of the novel Crispin.

Thursday- We will continue to work on their medieval term project and we'll do another activity with verbs.

The week of January 31st

Monday- Read out Loud, poetry quiz, and work time on their Poetry Anthology.

Tuesday- Poetry Coffeehouse! Today we celebrate poetry by handing in our Poetry Anthologies, reciting 20 lines of our own poetry, and sipping hot chocolate. :)

Wednesday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, and we'll take a trip to the library. We will do a PowerPoint on verbs and we'll also do a verb exercise.

Thursday and Friday- A Team will be speaking in English.

January 24-28

Monday- We did Read Out Loud and Caught Ya. The students also chose the 20 lines of their own poetry that they'd like to recite next Tuesday for our coffeehouse. We learned about personification and wrote a 12 line poem using personification.

Tuesday- They went over the noun quiz (they didn't have the best results), and they were given a retake ticket on nouns to do in order to retake the quiz Friday.

Wednesday- We did Read Out Loud and Caught Ya, and we work on our memorization. We went over Oxymorons and wrote an 8 line poem using oxymorons.

Thursday- We had a work day in the computer lab and we went over the retake ticket.

Friday- We had the noun retake and had the laptops in the classroom for a work day. Weekly Reading Report #3 was due.

Homework- Any late work!

Poetry Anthology is due Tuesday- you need your 10 poems in final draft form, 2 favorite poems, the favorite poems sheet, and the poetry log.

Memorize your 20 lines for Tuesday

January 3-7

Happy New Year! We're back to school and hard at work! In January we will be doing our poetry unit.

Monday- We will share about our breaks, Read Out Loud, do a Caught 'Ya, and learn how to read a poem out loud. We will also introduce our first poetry assignment which is to memorize and recite one of four poems in front of class (due next Monday). We will begin memorizing the first four lines today.

Tuesday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught 'Ya, and we'll continue to memorize our poem. We'll go over various poetry terms and listen to our first poem set to music, "The Highwayman".

Wednesday- We will go to the library to get a book for our Weekly Reading Report. It should be a book you have not read before and should be at least 200 pages long. We'll ROL, do a Caught 'Ya, and review nouns (quiz Friday over nouns). We'll also introduce onomatopoeia, find it in "The Highwayman" and write an eight line poem using onomatopoeia.

Thursday- Mrs. Malloch's class will be doing SRI testing and silent reading when the test is finished. Ms. Naber's class will do ROL, Caught 'Ya, and rehearse their poem. There will be a noun quiz, and we'll write an "I Am" poem.

Friday- Ms. Naber's class will be doing SRI testing and silent reading when the test is finished. Mrs. Malloch's class will do ROL, Caught 'Ya, and rehearse their poem. There will be a noun quiz, and we'll write an "I Am" poem.

***Late work slips were handed out this week. Get this work in ASAP!!!!

Homework-

Monday- Rehearse poem

Tuesday- Rehearse poem

Wednesday- Finish onomatopoeia poem, read for Weekly Reading Report

Thursday- Rehearse poem and read

Friday- Rehearse poem (recite on Monday!), and read for Weekly Reading Report